Barbara Neely on criminal
Barbara Neely5 quotes““Criminal justice” was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.”
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[On speaking of family secrets:] I don’t know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.
Barbara NeelyBarbara Neely For just once in my life, I’d like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who’s got an attitude about the way I look.
Barbara NeelyBarbara Neely I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.’ My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.
Barbara NeelyBarbara Neely No matter how old we get, life’s always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you’ve learned ten times before.
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on criminal
You can’t slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve.
Al SwearengenAl Swearengen You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
Al SharptonAl Sharpton Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world – they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.
Akhmad KadyrovAkhmad Kadyrov The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
Aisha HindsAisha Hinds They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.
AgathonAgathon Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.
Adolf LoosAdolf Loos These people are criminals. They’re psychopaths.
Adel al-JubeirAdel al-Jubeir
